Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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patient kitty
anyone know if cats nibble on mint, or do they avoid it?
had a small patch in the back yard growing up but never paid mind to what the kittys thought of it
Avoid it like the plague I think.
The mint plant is related to catnip, so cats are naturally drawn to it; however, the mint plant is very much a no-no as it is toxic to cats (and dogs). So he can look but mustn’t touch.
He was angling for the Woodford Reserve.
My 7 cats don’t show any interest in the other mints, although catnip gets chewed down to a nub pretty quickly.
Have wonderful and blessed Sunday, Treepers . . .
One more . . .
Thanks, GH! Great way to start out a Sunday morning!
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Damn it, Garrison! Had to order more Kleenex!!!!! Leenie!!!
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Simply superb!
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True Riches
By Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
Some years ago there came to this country a very poor young man. He found a job in the timber lands of Wisconsin. Being industrious he gradually accumulated some timber acreage of his own. Soon he began to prosper, and after a few years he invested in a lumber milling industry. Before long he owned more than one mill, and this led him to expand into northern Wisconsin and Minnesota. In a few years he was known as a rich man, investing in timber acreage in the far northwest and eventually owning valuable land by the thousands of acres, the very finest timber in the country. At the time of his death neither he nor his relatives nor friends knew what he was worth financially, he had become so wealthy.
When the time came for him to die, however, he could not take one cent of his riches with him, for as I Timothy 6:7 says: “We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we carry nothing out”.
It seems difficult for most men to learn that “a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth” (Luke 12:15). They close their ears to the words of wisdom spoken by the Lord: “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal” (Matt. 6:19,20).
The truest, most lasting riches of all are referred to in II Corinthians 8:9, where the Apostle Paul says: “For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich”.
And these riches may be had by faith — by accepting them as a gift, for “the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom.6:23).
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/true-riches/
1 Timothy 6:7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
Luke 12:15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Matthew 6:19 ¶ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
2 Corinthians 8:9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Nothing Green ever works.
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/when-the-going-gets-tough-the-electric-go-petrol/news-story/3b9a2c04086d3bdb5ac6f69a2187daf0
Britain also promised their unemployed coal miners jobs making solar panels and technology but all the work went to China instead (low bidder)
The readers comments under that article are brutal!
On this day ~
May 30, 339
✝️ Church father Eusebius went Home to glory. His ten-volume history is our best authority for early Christian history. We owe him a special debt because he quotes from many sources that no longer exist. Because of this we know a good deal about how we got the New Testament. Eusebius also traced developing heresies. Through him we know of challenges to Biblical orthodoxy in the early centuries of the faith. Above all, Eusebius recorded how God preserved the Bible-believing church and poured His grace upon it.
Eusebius was about seventy-four years old when he died. In addition to all his other writings, he left behind commentaries on Isaiah and the Psalms, a geography of the Bible, and a concordance of the Gospels.
Gymnast Mikayla Maroney in a cute TV advert
Frisbee on the roof so she does a couple of running flips and vaults up onto the roof, retrieves the frisbee and tosses it back to a couple dorky teen guys
And looks cute as can be
So nerdy guy throws it up on the roof again …
YMMV but I found it delightfully entertaining
Good morning all.
The cold continues for most of the US with California and the NW hot. Since February the US and European models have been miserably wrong in predicting weather for almost all of the US. May has seen temperatures on average far below the average for all but the western US.
This cold we’re experiencing here in the eastern US is going to start moderating next week and then we in the Great lakes, NE, and mid-Atlantic states are going to feel like someone opened a blast furnace door for a week or 10 days followed by another blast of colder than average temps. AS this happens California temps will start to moderate some. Notice the pattern? Flipping back and forth between extremes has been what we have been experiencing and that pattern will continue for some time.
June 10th! Those of you on the east coast make a note of that date. Conditions will be excellent for a strong hurricane to form and come ashore somewhere along the east coast around that time. Not saying it is going to happen, just that at this time it appears that all the conditions will line up for it to be about as conducive for strong TS development tracking ashore as they can be.
You may notice that I don’t really say that much about California weather. They are of course whining about heat and drought again. Well as far as I’m concerned that is exactly what they should be expecting. There are too many people living in that semiarid land. Far more than it will be able to sustain in the long run according to the climate history. Proxy data indicates California has actually enjoyed relatively wet conditions for most of the last 200 years compared to the past when droughts lasting centuries were the norm.
Though I agree with you about their failure to properly invest in building and maintaining adequate reservoirs the fact is that land is bound to have dry spells. And it the proxy evidence demonstrated Tree ring analysis of California climate are correct it will only get worse.
As you can see the last 500 years are the wettest in the known history of what we call California according to tree rings. Now days I laugh when they show “drought” in places like the the Mojave and Death Valley in their over the top efforts to prove “climate change”.
There is every reason to believe that there will come a time when de-salinization is the only way a significant population can be sustained in southern California as ground water sources dry up. They have already appropriated about as much river water from adjoining states as there is to take.
Besides that. This truck driver living in “fly over country” that has paid attention to such stuff for decades now is like a mule that has been whipped too much. In California, if it isn’t drought, it’s mud slides, or wild fires, or earth quakes, something else. Over the years the near constant drum beat of drama over catastrophes we hear about has just dulled my senses to the point where I just yawn when I hear them.
Yup, desalination all the way. If we weren’t obsessing over made up crises and their ridiculously over the top expensive and destructive solutions we could make this a veritable garden planet.
A water specialist of my acquaintance takes a dim view of desalinization, saying that when mistakes happen (as mistakes inevitably do), the consequences are terrible.
Much better to optimize usage, utilize graywater, cisterns, etc.
In the Middle East, the ruins of the city of Petra include an elaborate water management system. The Israeli fortress of Masada was sustained by an enormous cistern. There are probably many ways of collecting and storing clean water that we could develop, if people put a mind to it
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
The 50th Psalm Septuagint (Psalm 51 KJV).
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great of Bithynia (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
Christ is risen! Christos anesti!
Truly He is risen! Alithos anesti!
Fifth Sunday of Pascha
The Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
May 17th on the traditional Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church (May 30th on the civil or commercial calendar)
Acts 11: 19 – 26, 29 – 30
Saint John 4: 5 – 42
Holy Apostles Andronicos and Junia of the Seventy
(they are included in this listing of the Seventy Holy Apostles)
http://www.cpress.orthodoxws.com/lives_4_january
and many other Saints today
The Paschal Troparion
Christ is risen from the dead, by death hath He trampled down death and on those in the graves hath He bestowed life.
(sung thrice)
Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
Kontakion. Plagal of Fourth Tone.
“Having come to the well in faith, the Samaritan woman saw Thee, the Water of Wisdom, whereof having drunk abundantly, she, the renowned one, inherited the Kingdom on high for ever.”
The Church knows the Samaritan Woman as the Holy Martyr Photine or Photina (or Svetlana in Russian).
The Explanation of the Holy Gospel according to Saint John concerning the Samaritan Woman is shared here by Saint Theophylact (there are some computer reading issues).
http://www.cpress.orthodoxws.com/c_fifth_pascha
A Sermon about the Samaritan Woman, by Saint John Chrysostomos, Archbishop of Constantinople, is online several places including the BrookwoodBlogger blogspot site from Saint Edward the Royal Martyr Monastery in England.
Verse of the Day for Sunday, May 30, 2021
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“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”
Genesis 1:26 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow, that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.
B J THOMAS DIES AT 78
RIP BJ Thomas.
I’m so Lonesome I could cry was a Hank Williams song that BJ made his own. It became a hit from a “B”side of a record. He tells the story here. A really great voice and talented man.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=I%27m+so+lonesome+I+could+cry&t=newext&atb=v270-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D7ynhZxSoYKY
God bless America, 🙂
Top one they got the rank wrong. She is wearing 3 stripes up and two rockers down. That is the rank insignia of an SFC (Sergeant First Class). Same rank I was when I ETSed. Oops, I was wrong. She does have three rockers, so yes she is an MSG.
When on an SF team at Ft. Devens we were tasked with training plebes during their summer camp. Crossing water obstacles and other rope work. Land Navigation. Hand to Gland. Stuff like that.
Mornin’ infidels!
Nailed it. Morning Wee.
It was so nice yesterday going into Menards and Meijers and not wearing a mask and only seeing employees and a few Karens doing so. They say that if you haven’t been vaccinated you need to wear a mask. But I’m not and the way I figure it, that is on me. I am endangering no one, except theoretically, me, by not wearing one.
Mornin’ WeeWeed!
Here is an article well worth reading, the best in years on Islam and the threat of annihilation to us all.
https://pjmedia.com/columns/robert-spencer/2021/05/29/today-is-the-anniversary-of-the-last-day-of-the-world-the-fall-of-constantinople-n1450751
It is a well written, pithy and ominous look into our future.
It is, in this day and age, of paramount importance to remember, that the first through the walls on that black Tuesday, were the “Janissaries”.
“Janissaries began as elite corps made up through the devşirme system of child slavery, by which young Christian boys, notably Armenians, Albanians, Bosnians, Bulgarians, Croats, Greeks and Serbs, were taken from the Balkans, enslaved and converted to Islam, and incorporated into the Ottoman army.”
The West is attacked not only from without, by dark forces who seek total control over our independence, freedom, liberty, economy and future, but most dangerously from within. The European invasion that is now taking place under the pretense of “immigration” is nothing short a movement of troops in a shooting war. Merkel and Macron are “Quislings” and seek through enactment of Globalist/Progressive initiatives the destruction into rubble of their native countries for 30 pieces of gold.
In our freshly remembered past, a president of this nation, made an “Apology Tour” and preached to all that would listen on the evils of the Western Crusades, which he (Hussein Obama) informed us, were another example of “Western Imperialism”.
In the year 711, Europeans were sitting around picking fleas off of each other when Radical Islam invaded the Iberian Peninsula. Were these inveterate slavers, killers and would be conquerors not stopped in 732 at the Battle Of Tours by Charles Martel, your girlfriend would now be wearing a Burka. From that point forward, the incessant pressure of invasion on Europe would continue for centuries. The Crusades, were, as anyone with 2 brain cells in tow knows, an ad hoc response to the “Imperialism” and violence of the very devils that the obsequious Obama would have us worship.
There are no “hearts and minds” to win here and not only should we follow Kafka’s thoughts on disrespecting our executioners, we should, now engage in the exact type of behaviour, so popular with those that hate the West. Irredentist Cultural Imperialism.
Take back the Hagia Sophia and return in kind the violence visited upon our heads for so long by our executioners.
There is no real estate outside of Arabia that belongs to Islam.
Muhammad bin Abdullah, the Private Muhammad, was the most successful career criminal in history.
An innovator, Muhammad developed the business model for commercial franchising thirteen centuries before Harlan Sanders began frying chickens in pressure cookers.
I know of no other individual that can be credited with creating a civilization. I know of no other civilization that has murdered over half a billion.
The initial tabulation by The historian Huntington has been augmented. And the body count continues. I defy anyone to identify one single day in this millennium, where a Muslim did not murder a non-Muslim for their infidelity.
Understand the human population did not exceed a full billion till about 1800.
I want the whole kit and kaboodle rounded up and expelled.
You people really should consider appointing me Emporer for Life.
I’m living on borrowing time. When I kick the bucket ( less than 5 likely. I’m a wreck. ) the USofA you get back will resemble the best parts of 1965. Why you’ll be doing the macerana while humming Beattle’s songs.
Frigging garbage presumptive text editor:
Private -> Pirate
Borrowing -> borrowed
A priest, a minister, and a rabbit walk into a bar …
Siamese twins wander into an aeroplane propeller…
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Phil Collins provides my perfect answer to the left!
I just made my first donation to the CTH. Thanks for all you do. The research and insight that you provide is critical to our psyche. Take care and God bless.
It sure was nice to see an excited crowd at Indy. Helio Castroneves wins his 4th Indy 500.
Couldn’t happen to a better driver and a real sportsman.
Year of the oldsters.
1992 Indy 500. It was see your breath cold. No beer for my brother and I in the stands at the end of the main straight that day. But when little Al took the lead over Michael Andretti the crowd went wild. It was amazing to hear a couple hundred thousand people chanting “Go Go Go” in unison as they cheered him to the finish the last couple of laps and I and my brother were right there chanting with them. .
If the “F” word offends or otherwise bothers you don’t watch this.
lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and his family as they seek to lead America back to You. Also, we pray for Angels to protect and support our Sundance as he works for justice and peace.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
Amen…
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Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
Is it too much of a stretch to say these two, and the ‘democracy’ mob, will be oligarching themselves while there? Pull a Biden in Ukraine.https://1tv.ge/en/news/senator-shaheen-us-supports-ukraine-georgia-in-their-desire-to-achieve-their-euro-atlantic-ambitions/
How do you solve a problem like GERD? https://dailynewsegypt.com/2021/05/30/ethiopia-claims-egypt-sudan-aim-to-monopolise-river-nile-waters/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-egypt-ethiopia-gerd-dam-filling-began
When I was about age 7 (1963) my Mom drove me and my siblings to a funeral of a relative in small town central Texas. We stayed with a distant relative. She was a senior and I was a little kid who had yet to learn proper manners. (Still working on that!)
I asked her, “how old are you?” She graciously put up with my childish ignorance and answered. “Seventy-five”.
On a bookcase, I what I now in my mind’s eye of recollection can recognize was a place of honor, was a photo of a young man in a military uniform.
Pointing at the photo, I asked, “Who is that?”
“My son.”
“What town does he live in?”
“He was killed in World War II . . . ”
Important lesson learned.
The rest of my stay there I just kept my mouth shut.
I will always remember her countenance and her voice from that moment.
Memorial Day is to honor our war dead – they gave all.
Hundreds of thousands of War Mothers gave up their sons.
Anyone who does not honor our war dead on Memorial Day should leave this nation.
✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.
Beware ‘organic’ fertilizer for your garden. Worse, it’s going onto agricultural crops too.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfas-chemicals-home-fertilizer-mosquito-spray-drinking-water/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=368b65af-ab68-4ffb-bf5d-3ac17e6e9e57
Garden & Be Well !